Qakbot levels up with new obfuscation techniques

Qakbot, also known as Qbot, is a well-documented banking trojan that has been around since 2008. Recent Qakbot campaigns, however, are utilizing an updated persistence mechanism that can make it harder for users to detect and remove the trojan. Qakbot is known to target businesses with the hope of stealing their login credentials and eventually draining their bank accounts. Qakbot has long utilized scheduled tasks to maintain persistence. In this blog post, we will detail an update to these schedule tasks that allows Qakbot to maintain persistence and potentially evade detection.